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XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing…
XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing the description, rise, growth, and fall of Antichrist : with divers cautions and arguments to establish Christians against the apostasy of the Church of Rome : very necessary for these times / by that late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing the description, rise, growth, and fall of Antichrist : with divers cautions and arguments to establish Christians against the apostacy of the Church of Rome : very necessary for these times / by that late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J.D. for J. Robinson, 1679
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Errors of Judgment, as well as sins of practice, may bring damnation upon the Souls of men. All sins do in their own nature tend to damnation. Rom. 6.23. For the wages of sin ⟨p. 227⟩is death. And Errors of Judgment are sins, for they are contrary to the rule or law of God, 1 Joh. 3.4. Whosoever committeth sin, transgresseth also the Law, for sin is the transgression of the Law. Any swerving from the Law is sin; And they are inductive of other sins; for if the eye be blind, the whole body is full of darkness, Matth. 6.23. It perver•s our zeal. There is nothing so mischievous, wicked, and cruel, that a man blinded with error, will not attempt against those that differ from him. Joh. 16.2. They shall put you out of the Synagogues: yea the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you▪ will think that he doth God service. A blind Horse is full of metal, but ever and anon stumbleth. Therefore if a man be not guided by sound Judgment, his zealous affections will precipitate him into mischief. As the Jews that persecuted Christ, and his Apostles, had a zeal of God but not according to knowledge, Rom. 10.2. So the Popish Zealots, with what fury have they persecuted the innocent and sincere servants of Christ? The Papists would be angry if we should not reckon St. Dominick a zealous man, and the poor Albigenses felt the bitter effects of that zeal in the destruction of many thousands, by inhumane Butcheries and Villainies about Toulouse, &c. The Lord deliver us from the furies of transported, brainsick Zealots!
1. Errors of Judgment, as well as sins of practice, may bring damnation upon the Souls of men. All sins do in their own nature tend to damnation. Rom. 6.23. For the wages of sin ⟨p. 227⟩